Fixing Problem Shooters: Part 2
Building Shooters
May 24, 2018
Article 034 – Think you need a lot of resources to train effectively? Think again.
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What if They Don’t Like It?
Building Shooters
May 9, 2018
Article 033 – It’s easy to think of teaching or mentoring as a waste of time if a student doesn’t pursue shooting or gun ownership afterwards. This isn’t true.
The State of the Training Industry
Building Shooters
April 14, 2018
Article 032 – Prepared remarks from our April 11 speech to the FBI Firearms Instructor Conference and the FBI National Academy.
Fixing Problem Shooters – Part 1
Building Shooters
March 18, 2018
Article 031 – Applying brain-science research to remedial in-service training. First task? Don’t make them worse.
Do Something
Building Shooters
February 24, 2018
Article 030 – Everybody wants to do something. Nobody wants to do the work to make that something effective.
Three Reasons Why You Should Mentor A New Shooter
Building Shooters
January 18, 2018
Article 029 – The distributed, less formal training structures that are usually involved in mentoring can produce better, safer, and more effective shooters and gun owners than virtually any other known training method.